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Make Internet calls from any computer with Skype on a thumb flash drive

Monday, July 10th, 2006

You gotta hand it to the free Skype Inernet telephone calling service.
They sure know how to market.
Skype and SanDisk have annunced a deal in which Skype will now come pre-loaded on the SanDisk Cruzer Micro and Cruzer Titanium lines of those little flash memory thumb drives. That means Skype users can take their personal […]

HD radio needs boost

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

Two years after its introduction, HD radio remains pretty ho hum. The sets, priced almost reasonably now at a couple hundred bucks, just aren’t being bought. Consumers are much more interested in satelite radio nand iPod podcasting, it seems. Local radio is a programming mess of way too many commercials interspersed with only a bit […]

Mainstream media’s collapse

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

If you want to see the stunning ways America’s entertainment and media habits have changed, check out Mainstream Media Meltdown over on The Long Tail. Besides the continuing collapse of newspaper circulating, all the other mainstream media forms are in serious decline.The Internet, podcasting, video on demand, personal music and video players are all […]